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Jonathan is deeply relieved when Annabel suggests they forgo their customary family holiday in Italy for a week’s camping in Wales. With two sets of school fees for them to worry about, fancy foreign holidays are increasingly looking like a thing of the past. And besides, he has fond memories of childhood camping in Scotland: [...]

“Kung Fu Panda” is an animated film the whole family can enjoy. It may not be as clever as the original “Shrek” or as technologically ground breaking as “Toy Story,” but it’s a funny and sweet – without being sappy – movie that won’t totally bore adults and will have kids howling with laughter.
This adult [...]

An AIDS patient involved in an awareness campaign has been banned from staying with his family by elders in his Murshidabad village.
Twenty-six-year-old Ananda Biswas’s wife, too, has been denied a job at the local health centre in Nabagram, about 230km from Calcutta, because of her husband’s illness.
Since May 28, Ananda (name changed) has been living [...]

It seems like each year I have more and more mothers in which to wish a ‘Happy Mother’s Day.’ This year, I added a Mother-in-Law to the list. And even though it was technically her day, she doled out the gifts in treating my wife and I and her other son and his wife (and [...]

Children who lose a parent suddenly may suffer a “double whammy” to their mental and physical health – from the shock of the loss and because of inherited risks, researchers have reported.
They said the risk factors that contribute to many early deaths of parents – such as mental illness or alcoholism – can be passed [...]

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When Boston humorist and author Steve Almond unplugged his Baby Daddy blog last month, he posted a goodbye note saying he and his wife had never planned to post beyond their daughter Josie’s diaper years. But he also cited a few ethical concerns with writing the blog, which ran on the hip parenting site Babble.com.
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If you’re looking for a good night’s sleep, don’t work long hours at a high-pressure job. Or commute. Or get married and have kids. Too late? You can take some comfort in the fact that many Canadians are in the same sleepy boat, according to a Statistics Canada report released yesterday.
Findings from the government’s 2005 [...]

Schools that get rid of high-fat snacks and soda may see quick results in the battle to prevent children from becoming overweight, new research shows. A Temple University study, published in the current issue of the journal Pediatrics, found that schools that overhauled their nutrition policies saw a 50-per-cent reduction in new cases of overweight [...]

It was only a matter of time before writer and early childhood educator Brett Berk turned the abundant fodder around him into a book. There was the friend who hadn’t been out alone since the birth of her three-year-old son. A couple who turned their master suite over to their daughter and her mass of [...]